Environmental Toxicology Seminar Series
Fall Quarter 2020
The seminar series needed to be adjusted due to the steps the university has taken related to the COVID-19 pandemic, so we have scheduled the seminars via Zoom. All students are required to participate via Zoom for the seminar presentations.
October 7
Aimen Chen, University of Pennsylvania
"Developmental neurotoxicity of flame retardants on child neurobehavior"
Host: Jason Cheng
October 14
Chia-en Chang, UC Riverside
"Modeling of molecular association on surface with widely varied properties: insights from DNA biosensor and amyloid peptide aggregation"
Host: Jason Cheng
October 21
Prue Talbot and Rachel Behar
"Stem Cell Core Facility Workshop"
Host: Jason Cheng
October 28
Beate Ritz, UCLA
"Exposure to pesticides and brain health: applying GIS and Omics approaches in California health studies"
Host: Jason Cheng
November 4
Maria L. Marco, UC Davis
"Microbes in our food: opportunities for improving human health"
Host: Jason Cheng
November 11
Holiday Break
November 18
Chi-Kong Chan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"Etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy: an update on aristolochic acids exposure mechanisms"
Valentyn Stadnytskyi, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH
"The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in SARS-CoV-2 transmission"
Host: Junyi Chen and Bochao Li
November 25
David Carter, UC Riverside
"Microscopy and Imaging Core Facility Workshop"
Host: Jason Cheng
December 2
Min Xue, UC Riverside
"Cyclic peptides as chemical biology tools"
Host: Jason Cheng
December 9
Marissa Giroux and Kay Ho, US EPA, Atlantic Coastal Ecology Division
"Micro and nanoplastic in marine sediment: detection and utilizing metabarcoding to assess meiofaunal communities"
Host: Junyi Chen